.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 249 122
Rank change year-on-year -65 -127 +40
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 410 442 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.21% 2.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.54% 5.59% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 375 388 1,777
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,434 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,397 7,910 16,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 21.64% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,619 5,954 13,927
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,700 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -76 113 £55,000 - 48
London -46 89 £80,000 - 58
South East -50 65 £60,000 +14.29% 60
North West -34 62 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Midlands -25 61 £65,000 +23.81% 26
East Midlands -14 47 £65,000 +23.81% 15
South West -16 43 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -22 30 £90,000 +80.00% 27
North East -9 26 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire -72 25 £42,500 -15.00% 13
West Midlands -38 14 £60,000 +3.00% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.95%) IIS
3 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.24%) Magento
1 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 245 (59.76%) Azure
2 88 (21.46%) AWS
3 62 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (11.95%) Serverless
5 41 (10.00%) SaaS
6 35 (8.54%) GitHub
7 33 (8.05%) Power Platform
8 28 (6.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.12%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.15%) Azure AKS
11 17 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (3.41%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
14 13 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (36.59%) SQL Server
2 54 (13.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 33 (8.05%) MongoDB
4 30 (7.32%) NoSQL
5 28 (6.83%) Power BI
6 22 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.41%) MySQL
8 13 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.22%) Redis
11 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.49%) NonStop SQL
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (11.95%) Git
2 9 (2.20%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) JIRA
4 4 (0.98%) Vite
5 3 (0.73%) NUnit
5 3 (0.73%) webpack
6 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.49%) MSTest
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (13.41%) Finance
2 46 (11.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.66%) Games
3 15 (3.66%) Law
4 11 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.44%) Banking
6 8 (1.95%) Front Office
6 8 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.46%) Retail
9 5 (1.22%) Advertising
9 5 (1.22%) Automotive
10 4 (0.98%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.73%) Legal
11 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 289 (70.49%) Developer
2 140 (34.15%) .NET Developer
3 115 (28.05%) Senior
4 96 (23.41%) Software Developer
5 71 (17.32%) C# Developer
6 70 (17.07%) Senior Developer
7 51 (12.44%) Lead
8 50 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
9 49 (11.95%) Software Engineer
10 45 (10.98%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (6.59%) Lead Developer
12 26 (6.34%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (6.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 26 (6.34%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (5.61%) Applications Developer
14 22 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (5.37%) React Developer
15 20 (4.88%) .NET Software Developer
16 19 (4.63%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (100.00%) .NET
2 138 (33.66%) ASP.NET
3 97 (23.66%) React
4 88 (21.46%) .NET Framework
5 66 (16.10%) RESTful
6 57 (13.90%) Blazor
7 56 (13.66%) ASP.NET Core
7 56 (13.66%) HTML
8 55 (13.41%) Entity Framework
9 53 (12.93%) CSS
10 52 (12.68%) AngularJS
11 41 (10.00%) Vue
12 31 (7.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 31 (7.56%) Node.js
12 31 (7.56%) REST
13 27 (6.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 14 (3.41%) Dapper ORM
15 13 (3.17%) HTML5
15 13 (3.17%) JSON
15 13 (3.17%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.44%) Sports Betting
6 9 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.95%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.46%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.46%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.98%) Digital TV
10 4 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.98%) Social Network
10 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.17%) VMS
2 8 (1.95%) Windows
3 5 (1.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (35.37%) Full-Stack Development
2 137 (33.41%) Agile
3 112 (27.32%) CI/CD
4 111 (27.07%) Software Engineering
5 97 (23.66%) DevOps
6 85 (20.73%) Microservices
7 70 (17.07%) MVC
8 60 (14.63%) Containerisation
9 55 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (12.44%) SDLC
11 40 (9.76%) Clean Code
12 38 (9.27%) OO
13 37 (9.02%) Collaborative Culture
14 34 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (8.05%) Mentoring
16 32 (7.80%) Analytics
17 31 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
18 30 (7.32%) AI
18 30 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
18 30 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 359 (87.56%) C#
2 176 (42.93%) SQL
3 117 (28.54%) JavaScript
4 58 (14.15%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.07%) PowerShell
6 20 (4.88%) Python
7 12 (2.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (2.44%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) Bash
10 5 (1.22%) Java
11 4 (0.98%) Bicep
11 4 (0.98%) Rust
12 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.49%) PHP
14 1 (0.24%) C++
14 1 (0.24%) Erlang
14 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 29 (7.07%) Degree
2 12 (2.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.71%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.41%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
2 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.49%) ITGC
2 2 (0.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (20.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (16.10%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 128 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.95%) Adobe
3 7 (1.71%) Google
4 5 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (1.22%) Facebook
5 2 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.49%) Foundry
5 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.49%) YouTube
6 1 (0.24%) Apple
6 1 (0.24%) Databricks
6 1 (0.24%) IBM
6 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle
6 1 (0.24%) Sony
6 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.24%) Workday
6 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!